How to know how much time we spend per day on WhatsApp and other apps

We spend too much time in front of the mobile phone although… who decides how much is 'too much' and how much is 'enough'? Surely we could draw a line between 'use' and 'abuse' when we cannot get past the mobile phone even when we carry out activities in which it should not appear. If you cannot eat without looking at Instagram notifications, if you are updating your Facebook wall while doing sports, if you are at a meeting with friends and talking on WhatsApp with someone who is not present... maybe you do have an addiction problem .

The first solution to our problems is to realize that we have them and addiction to mobile phones is no exception. If you are already at that point, there are different ways to help you avoid it and one of them happens, paradoxically, through a mobile application. How, precisely, can a mobile application help you take the use of it more calmly? Well, with one that tells you, clearly, how much you use your mobile and how long each application lasts. The results can be so revealing that they end up giving you a hand.

Try ActionDash and use your phone in a he althier way

The application we are talking about is called 'ActionDash' and brings to all terminals an Android 9 Pie function exclusive to the Google Pixel called Digital Wellbeing or 'Digital Wellbeing' in Spanish.Thanks to this application we will be able to have detailed statistics of the use that we give to our phone in order to know where we have to tackle the problem. The application is free ( although it has premium features) with ads and its download file only weighs about 5 MB so you can download it whenever you want without your mobile data suffering much.

When opening and granting the necessary permissions for the application to work we will see a circle formed by all the applications that we have used. Each application will have a segment of the circle assigned according to the time that we have been using it. It is very easy to recognize each of the applications because the segment is accompanied by a color and its corresponding icon. If we want to see in more detail the use of each application, we will click on its icon.

How many times have I unlocked my phone today?

On the application screen we will see a graph corresponding to the days of the week and the minutes that we have been using it. In addition, another graph in which we can see, carefully, how much time we have spent in the application each time we have entered (if there are 2 sessions of less than 1 minute, 3 sessions of more than 2, etc). We can see the records daily or hourly.

On the main screen, in addition to seeing the circle of applications, we can also see how many times we have unlocked the terminal, both weekly and daily. In addition, we have other screens that we can select at the top of the application, such as being able to see the applications that we have used the most and the weather, how many notifications we have received a throughout the week or a detailed graph with all the occasions that we have unlocked the terminal.We can put all the statistics in hours or days.

In short, ActionDash is a very useful application to know how we 'waste' time with our mobile and if we need to apply a 'detox cure'.